Quotes about Virtue
The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.
- Oswald Chambers
The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.
- St Bonaventure
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.
- Confucius
Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.
- James Hayford
Good moral character is the first essential in a man.
- George Washington
The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.
- FF Bruce
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
- Cicero
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
- Pope John Paul II
A man cannot do good before he is made good.
- Martin Luther
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
- Confucius
There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
- Catherine of Siena